Lora Froud
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Investment Funds: Open-ended Funds
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About
Provided by Lora Froud
Practice Areas
Investment Management; Financial Services & Products
Career
Lora advises clients on the structuring and operation of onshore and offshore investment funds, both regulated and unregulated, and also advises on all legal aspects of asset management. She specialises in regulated funds.
Her clients include operators, asset managers, depositaries and custodians of investment funds. Advice is wide ranging and incorporates restructurings and reorganisations, outsourcing and hosting arrangements, investment management agreements, depositary agreements and platform and distribution arrangements.
In addition she regularly assists clients with related EU
and UK regulatory and compliance matters. She has particular experience in advising on the UCITS regime, AIFMD, MiFID and ESG developments.
Lora is an active participant in Investment Association initiatives and was heavily involved in advising the FCA and the IA on the regulatory framework for the Long Term Asset Fund. She is also on the Alternative Investment Management Association working groups in relation to UCITS, AIFMD and Liquid Alternatives and is on the IBA’s Investment Funds Committee.
Lora is ranked as a leading individual in the retail funds space by a leading legal directory, The UK Legal 500, and is listed in The Lawyers Hot 100 2020.
Chambers Review
UK
Lora Froud advises clients on the full range of matters relating to UCITS funds and authorised funds, including Charity Authorised Investment Funds. She is notable for her authorised fund-related regulatory expertise. Additionally, Froud played a formative role in the establishment of the Long Term Asset Fund.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lora is technically excellent but also forward-thinking and commercially very aware."
"Lora is excellent - she really knows her stuff and is super organised."
"Lora has strong commercial knowledge and is second to none in the long-term asset space."
"Lora is technically very sound and a great lawyer."
"Lora is technically excellent but also forward-thinking and commercially very aware."
"Lora is excellent - she really knows her stuff and is super organised."
"Lora has strong commercial knowledge and is second to none in the long-term asset space."
"Lora is technically very sound and a great lawyer."